Beamformer Performance in Sound Fields Produced by Amplitude Panning

Koski T, Fazi F, Pulkki V. Beamformer Performance in Sound Fields Produced by Amplitude Panning. In: AES Conference: 55th International Conference: Spatial Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2014. Paper P-9. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17370

@inproceedings{Koski2014_17370,
  author = {Koski, Teemu and Fazi, Filippo and Pulkki, Ville},
  title = {{Beamformer Performance in Sound Fields Produced by Amplitude Panning}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 55th International Conference: Spatial Audio},
  note = {Paper P-9},
  year = {2014},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17370}
}

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TI  - Beamformer Performance in Sound Fields Produced by Amplitude Panning
AU  - Koski, Teemu
AU  - Fazi, Filippo
AU  - Pulkki, Ville
T2  - AES Conference: 55th International Conference: Spatial Audio
M1  - Paper P-9
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2014/08/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Increasing motivation to reproduce realistic sound scenes for hearing-instrument users has raised the question whether spatial sound reproduction methods are capable of reproducing sound accurately also for listeners that listen through a hearing instrument with a beamformer. This study presents an analysis of the pressure magnitude errors induced in the output of a beamformer when it is exposed to a sound field produced by amplitude panning. Simulations show that reproduction artifacts are generated by errors in the phase shifts between microphone capsules and due to destructive interference of the sound pressures produced by the reproduction loudspeakers. Using amplitude panning in applications involving listening through beamformers requires the controlling of these sources of errors. It is shown that the adequate loudspeaker span for a given maximum error depends on the directivity of the beamformer in use.
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